About Us

Vision

 

The Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy (CRSJP) supports research about issues pertaining to social justice and social policy. The aim of such research is to inform social policy, to enhance social inclusion and to promote social justice.

 

The CRSJP brings together researchers, professors, students, policy makers and practitioners to participate in a critically meaningful and ongoing dialogue on social issues of fundamental importance to the community and to societal development in northeastern Ontario and more broadly across Canada. It seeks to produce original research and innovative policy ideas to help build a just, democratic and sustainable world.

 

Mandate

 

The CRSJP undertakes research, theoretical or practical in nature, qualitative or quantitative in approach, discipline-based, interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary, pertaining to social well-being. It helps participants to develop expertise in fields of interest to the CRSJP, such as power relations, oppression, and self-determination; it provides them with information to facilitate social transformation and social justice; and it develops tools to facilitate analysis and research. 

 

The study of social policies sheds light on whether they are appropriate and responsive to human needs and values and on how they maintain or transform social structures and social dynamics. The CRSJP focuses on issues affecting northern Ontario while recognizing the importance of understanding how local issues and problems extend beyond territorial borders and are connected to aspects of global justice.

 

Objectives

 

1.          To facilitate the research of professors in the areas of social justice and social policy.

 

 

2.          To build critical knowledge about social justice and social policy in order to lay the foundations for organising and advocating for social change.

 

3.          To create strategic relationships with public service agencies, government ministries, volunteer and other community organisations in the area of social justice and social policy that will benefit students, researchers and the community.

 

4.          To provide a forum to help students at the undergraduate and graduate levels interested in issues pertaining to social justice and social policy:

a.           to deepen their knowledge and to develop critical insights into these issues,

b.          to assist professors in the conduct of their research,

c.           to develop research projects for undergraduate and graduate theses,

d.          to identify knowledgeable faculty with interests similar to their own,

e.           to obtain advice on the conduct of their research projects, and

f.           to become competent practitioners, administrators, policy makers and researchers.

 

5.          To build awareness in the community at large about the relationships between social justice and social policy, to identify obstacles to the development of good social policies based on social justice outcomes and to develop strategies to overcome these obstacles.

 

Means

 

 

1.          To encourage research on issues pertaining to social justice and policy by preparing and submitting funding applications to granting bodies.

 

2.          To conduct individual and joint research projects on issues pertaining to social justice and policy.

 

3.          To disseminate knowledge about social justice and policy by hosting public forums, holding conferences, meeting with the media, publishing papers, and maintaining a web site.

 

4.          To facilitate contact and exchanges between students, researchers and professors at the local, regional, national and international levels about social justice and policy.

 

5.          To develop institutional relations with other partners working in the area of social justice and policy at the local, regional, national and international levels.

 

6.          To provide a space where students at the undergraduate and graduate levels can develop their ability to conduct research on issues pertaining to social justice and policy.

 

 

 
 
 
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